UnFairWitness: The Ron Paul Factor?

The photos America doesn't want seen MORE photographs have been leaked of Iraqi citizens tortured by US soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. Tonight the SBS Dateline program plans to broadcast about 60 previously unpublished photographs that the US Government has been fighting to keep secret in a court case with the American Civil Liberties Union. Although a US judge last year granted the union access to the photographs following a freedom-of-information request, the US Administration has appealed against the decision on the grounds their release would fuel anti-American sentiment. Some of the photos are similar to those published in 2004, others are different. They include photographs of six corpses, although the circumstances of their deaths are not clear. There are also pictures of what appear to be burns and wounds from shotgun pellets. The executive producer of Dateline, Mike Carey, said he was showing the pictures leaked to his program because it was important people understood what had happened at Abu Ghraib. Seven US guards were jailed following publication of the first batch of Abu Ghraib photographs in April 2004. Mr Carey said he could not explain why the photographs had not yet been published, as he thought it was likely that some journalists had them. "It think it's strange, maybe they think its more of the same."

Monday, August 06, 2007

The Ron Paul Factor?

According to this blogger (original article), the 2007 National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) Grassroots Presidential Endorsement Convention was unable to agree on a candidate to endorse yesterday. Perhaps the results of their straw poll gives a clue as to why?

A “straw poll” was conducted by secret ballot:

Fred Thompson 33%
Mitt Romney 15%
Ron Paul 14%
Duncan Hunter 11%
Tom Tancredo 11%
John Cox 6%
Newt Gingrich 3%
Mike Huckabee 3%
Rudy Giuliani 2%
Sam Brownback 2%

This was at a convention keynoted by Tom Delay.

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Posted by: Brian | Monday, August 06, 2007 at 03:55 PM

Funny to see several comments on the Thompson blog endorsing Paul. Maybe there is traction here.

Posted by: Roy | Monday, August 06, 2007 at 11:05 PM

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